2001 D08

• THIS IS A COMPUTATION QUESTION. A tourist going to Greece converts a thousand dollars to drachmas at the rate of 400 drachmas to the dollar. He spends 280,000 drachmas, and when he returns he converts the remaining drachmas back to dollars. How many dollars does he receive?

• ANSWER: $300 (400,000Dr – 280,000 Dr = 120,000Dr = $300)

• What four-letter word alternately describes something given as security for a loan usually at a shop named for this word, a person or entity that is used to further someone else’s purposes, or the lowest-ranking chess piece?

• ANSWER: PAWN

• What Austrian composer’s output included 12 Masses, 84 string quartets and 104 symphonies, including the Surprise and the Military?

• ANSWER: Franz Joseph HAYDN (HIGH-den)

• Porfirio Diaz’s overthrown in 1910 marked the beginning of the revolution in what country, during which Venustiano Carranza, Emiliano Zapata and Pancho Villa became famous?

• ANSWER: MEXICO (or Mexican Revolution)

• Some subdivisions of this rock type include hypabyssal, plutonic and volcanic. What is this rock type, all examples of which are formed by crystallization of magma from below the earth’s crust?

• ANSWER: IGNEOUS

• This war, which lasted between March 19 and June 14, 1982, began when the Argentines raised their flag over the island of South Georgia. It ended when the British recaptured Port Stanley, the capital of the war’s namesake islands. What is this war that revived the Thatcher government and brought an end to military rule in Argentina, over some islands some 500 miles east of the Argentine coast?

• ANSWER: FALKLAND war

• Benzosulfimide and gluside are names given to what artificial compound with formula C6H4COSO2NH that is used in medicines, foods and beverages as a sugar substitute?

• ANSWER: SACCHARINE

• THIS IS A COMPUTATION QUESTION. A right triangle has legs of three and eight inches. What is the tangent of the angle between the hypotenuse and the three-inch leg?

• ANSWER: EIGHT-THIRD inches

• What daughter of William Godwin and Mary Wollestonecraft is most famous for writing a book sub-titled the Modern Prometheus, a book known by most as Frankenstein?

• ANSWER: Mary SHELLEY

• Magi, or priests, performed the rites of devotion for this religion. The Avesta are the scriptures of this religion. In this religion, Ahura Mazda and Ahriman fought each other in an eternal struggle. What is this religion, founded in Persia in the 6th century BC?

• ANSWER: ZOROASTRIANISM (zoh-roh-AS-tree-un-iz-em)

• This acid is the fourth ingredient on cans of Coca-Cola. What is this acid, also used as a fertilizer and in water treatments, with the formula H3PO4?

• ANSWER: PHOSPHORIC acid

• His last novel was 1987’s The Haunted Mesa. Other of his novels include High Lonesome, The Californios, Comstock Lode and The Lonesome Gods. Who is this author of Westerns who died in 1988?

• ANSWER: Louis L’AMOUR

• What class of character in Advanced Dungeons & Dragons First and Third editions specializes in unarmed combat?

• ANSWER: MONK

• What was the name Theodore Roosevelt gave to those journalists who attempted to uncover the corruption and extreme poverty occurring in late 19th and early 20th century America?

• ANSWER: MUCKRAKERS

• THIS IS A COMPUTATION QUESTION. A printer can print 10 pages a minute. Three delays interrupt the printing of a 900-page report, a 10-minute jam, a 3-minute jam, and 2 minutes to put more paper in the printer. How long did it take to print the report?

• ANSWER: 105 minutes or ONE HOUR, FORTY-FIVE minutes

• Joseph Estrada, the president of what country, is currently being impeached for bribery? (2001)

• ANSWER: Joseph ESTRADA

• What is the name given to the suspension of microscopic particle of liquid or gas in a gas, most associated with hair care products?

• ANSWER: AEROSOLs

• The area the Romans called Hibernia is today given what name?

• ANSWER: IRELAND

• What is the term applied to two angles that have a common vertex and whose sides form two lines, angles that are always equal?

• ANSWER: VERTICAL angles

• What is the name given to the tubes that connect the uterus and the ovaries?

• ANSWER: FALLOPIAN tubes

• Emma commits adultery on her disabled husband Charles. This is the plot of what novel by Gustave Flaubert?

• ANSWER: MADAME BOVARY

• THIS IS A COMPUTATION QUESTION. Bob eats 20 cheese cubes, each of which are ½ inch square. How many cubic inches of cheese has Bob consumed?

• ANSWER: FIVE cubic inches

• Who starred as Scarlett O’Hara in the movie Gone With The Wind?

• ANSWER: Vivien LEIGH

• Advertising salesman Leopold Bloom’s adventures of June 16, 1904, makes up the plot of what James Joyce novel?

• ANSWER: ULYSSES

• What parallel was the original boundary between North and South Korea?

• ANSWER: 38TH parallel

• How many basic positions are there in ballet?

• ANSWER: FIVE

• What is the name given to lines on a weather map that connect points of equal atmospheric pressure?

• ANSWER: ISOBARs

• What Canadian province lies between Ontario and Saskatchewan?

• ANSWER: MANITOBA

• THIS IS A COMPUTATION QUESTION. What is the measure of each external angle of a six-sided polygon?

• ANSWER: SIXTY degrees or PI/3 radians

• What sort of bond has a pair of electrons shared between two atoms, but with the pair held more closely by one of the atoms?

• ANSWER: POLAR COVALENT bond (prompt on covalent)

• Marilyn Monroe converted to Judaism after she married what playwright, the author of The Crucible and Death of a Salesman?

• ANSWER: Arthur MILLER

• Let y of x equal f of g of x. The derivative of y of x equals the derivative of g of x multiplied with the derivative of f of g of x. This, clumsily stated, is what rule of differentiation, useful for finding the derivative of functions such as the quantity x plus 3, squared?

• ANSWER: CHAIN RULE

• Marcel Duchamp was the leading member of what nihilistic 20th century art movement that took its name from the French word for “hobby-horse?”

• ANSWER: DADA

• Who is the author of The Executioner’s Song?

• ANSWER: Norman MAILER

• At what battle did Texan forces capture Santa Anna and force him to grant Texan independence?

• ANSWER: SAN JACINTO

• What French writer is best known for the short stories The Necklace and Ball of Fat?

• ANSWER: Guy de MAUPASSANT

• His soon-to-be ex-wife, Donna Hanover, has made several accusations against him. When he was diagnosed with prostate cancer, he was forced to withdraw his bid to challenge Hillary Clinton. Who is this man that is content to hold on to the office of mayor of New York? (2001)

• ANSWER: Rudy GIULIANI

• In 1920, this woman was canonized, despite the fact that she had been burned at the stake for sorcery some 500 years earlier. Most 13-year-olds who hear Saints Michael, Catherine and Margaret are sent for psychiatric counseling, but this one was eventually allowed to lead an army, flying her own standard, leading the relief of the siege of Orleans. Who is this woman that allowed Charles VII to be crowned as King of France?

• ANSWER: St. JOAN OF ARC (Jeanne d’Arc)

• What is the name given to a computer or group of computers that enforces an access control policy between two networks, usually used to prevent external visitors from reaching a company’s internal networks?

• ANSWER: FIREWALL

• Its 1846 discovery fulfilled a prediction that attempted to explain a noted anomaly in the orbit of Uranus. What is this planet that recently became the eighth-closest planet to the sun once again, the last of the gas giants?

• ANSWER: NEPTUNE

• What name is shared by the name of the youngest daughter of the Prophet Muhammad and wife of the fourth caliph, Ali, and by a town in Portugal where three peasant children claimed to have seen the Virgin of the Rosary in 1917?

• ANSWER: FATIMA

• Roger Sherman, the author of the Great Compromise at the 1787 Constitutional Convention, hailed from what state?

• ANSWER: CONNECTICUT

• THIS IS A COMPUTATION QUESTION. What number is 120 percent of 80?

• ANSWER: 96

• It equals the product of the force with the perpendicular distance between the rotation axis and the line of action of the force. What is this ability of a force to cause rotation?

• ANSWER: TORQUE

• This four-letter word can mean either the white specks on a television screen from weak reception, or solid precipitation in the form or white or translucent ice crystals of varying shapes?

• ANSWER: SNOW

• What is the name given to a contract where traders can either buy (“put”) or sell (“call”) shares of a company at a fixed price at a future date or within a specified period?

• ANSWER: OPTION market

• THIS IS A COMPUTATION QUESTION. A government agency has a budget of $500 million. It requests an 8 percent rise in funding for the next year, but only receives a 5 percent rise. How much in dollars did the agency want, but not receive, for the next year?

• ANSWER: $15 MILLION

• This five-letter term is used medically to describe a state in which the blood pressure and circulation is too low to maintain the functioning of the brain or other organs. The lay public uses this term to denote the psychological state of fear or grief following a sudden accident or death. What is this term, associated with the words shell and electric?

• ANSWER: SHOCK

• What is the name given to the present participle of a verb when it is used as a noun?

• ANSWER: GERUND

• Two answers required. After their birth, they were thrown into the river, winding up on the Palatine Hill, where a she-wolf raised them. What twin sons of Mars and the Vestal Virgin Silvia are credited with founding the city of Rome?

• ANSWER: ROMULUS and REMUS

• THIS IS A COMPUTATION QUESTION. A shopper finds two sweaters priced $60 and $50. He comes back in a week to find the first sweater is 30% off and the second sweater is 50% off. How much does he need to spend to get both sweaters?

• ANSWER: $67 (first sweater is $42 and the second is $25)

• What is the chemical property defined by the negative logarithm of hydrogen-ion concentration in moles per liter, which comes out to a number between 0 and 14?

• ANSWER: pH

• Who is the author of the novel Roots?

• ANSWER: Alex HALEY

• This Dutch painter took time off from painting to negotiate a peace treaty between Spain and England in 1630. His famous paintings include The Battle of the Amazons and Daniel In The Lion’s Den. Who is this famous painter, best known for the voluptuousness of some of his models?

• ANSWER: Peter Paul RUBENS (hence the word Rubenesque)

• What is the name given to the second-ranking member of a party in the House and Senate, whose chief duties are to ensure party discipline?

• ANSWER: WHIP